Katamarino
1st Jun 2011, 10:43
Some of you might remember seeing a post some months ago looking for someone to fly a Maule down to Sudan and back. Well, that project has now come to fruition and I shall be the one making the trip.
We shall depart tomorrow morning (hopefully, see below!), and fly down to Egypt, basing out of Luxor. From Luxor we plan a day trip into Sudan and back, on June 10th, before returning the aircraft to the UK.
You can follow the trip, if interested, at katamarino.co.uk - Adventure Flying Resources (http://www.katamarino.co.uk/sudan2011.php) - the whole site is not complete, but that page will be working fine.
I am currently wrestling with Dutch bureaucracy and the need to have a Mode S transponder in controlled airspace. I was told by Amsterdam flight service centre, weeks ago, that they could (and had) arranged permission for me to fly in and out of Rotterdam with Mode C - and indeed, I followed their instructions and arrived without a hitch on my VFR flightplan on Sunday. However, my VFR flightplan OUT of Rotterdam has been rejected, with the flight service centre now claiming they CAN'T give permission and that it has to come from the IVW (they can't quite explain how I managed to arrive fine). So, I'm trying to urgently organise permission with the IVW; all of whom are on holiday, but one very helpful guy from another department is trying to push it through...interesting that one can fly into Rotterdam fine, and then get trapped by bureaucrats.
We shall depart tomorrow morning (hopefully, see below!), and fly down to Egypt, basing out of Luxor. From Luxor we plan a day trip into Sudan and back, on June 10th, before returning the aircraft to the UK.
You can follow the trip, if interested, at katamarino.co.uk - Adventure Flying Resources (http://www.katamarino.co.uk/sudan2011.php) - the whole site is not complete, but that page will be working fine.
I am currently wrestling with Dutch bureaucracy and the need to have a Mode S transponder in controlled airspace. I was told by Amsterdam flight service centre, weeks ago, that they could (and had) arranged permission for me to fly in and out of Rotterdam with Mode C - and indeed, I followed their instructions and arrived without a hitch on my VFR flightplan on Sunday. However, my VFR flightplan OUT of Rotterdam has been rejected, with the flight service centre now claiming they CAN'T give permission and that it has to come from the IVW (they can't quite explain how I managed to arrive fine). So, I'm trying to urgently organise permission with the IVW; all of whom are on holiday, but one very helpful guy from another department is trying to push it through...interesting that one can fly into Rotterdam fine, and then get trapped by bureaucrats.